There is no standard maximum, although the ARG_MAX constant limits how long a command line can be. Do you get "command line too long" errors when running this script? In this particular case, you can probably simply avoid using echo altogether:
Maybe this doesn't even have to run in a loop at all -- if you can change the db2 invocation to retrieve all lines at once, you can take out the while loop, too.
I have a flat file and need to count no of records in the file less the header and the trailer record.
I would appreciate any and all asistance
Thanks
Hadi Lalani (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have two files say file1 and file2.
I want to check the number of records in file1 and if its atleast 2 (i.e., 2 or greater than 2 ) then I have to check records in file2 .If records in file2 is atleast 1 (i.e. if its not empty ) i have to set some conditions .
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I'm new in unix scripting and I've a problem with a script... :confused:
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I am a newbie to Linux stuff. I have this kind of problem which couldn't solve alone. I have a text file with records separated by empty lines like this:
ID: 20
Name: X
Age: 19
ID: 21
Name: Z
ID: 22
Email: xxx@yahoo.com
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Age: 19
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Please if I can provide help.
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pg_copy_from
PG_COPY_FROM(3)PG_COPY_FROM(3)pg_copy_from - Insert records into a table from an arraySYNOPSIS
bool pg_copy_from (resource $connection, string $table_name, array $rows, [string $delimiter], [string $null_as])
DESCRIPTION pg_copy_from(3) inserts records into a table from $rows. It issues a COPY FROM SQL command internally to insert records.
PARAMETERS
o $connection
- PostgreSQL database connection resource.
o $table_name
- Name of the table into which to copy the $rows.
o $rows
- An array of data to be copied into $table_name. Each value in $rows becomes a row in $table_name. Each value in $rows should be
a delimited string of the values to insert into each field. Values should be linefeed terminated.
o $delimiter
- The token that separates values for each field in each element of $rows. Default is TAB.
o $null_as
- How SQL NULL values are represented in the $rows. Default is N ("\N").
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
pg_copy_from(3) example
<?php
$db = pg_connect("dbname=publisher") or die("Could not connect");
$rows = pg_copy_to($db, $table_name);
pg_query($db, "DELETE FROM $table_name");
pg_copy_from($db, $table_name, $rows);
?>
SEE ALSO pg_copy_to(3).
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